In Ubuntu my html test page with an audio or video attribute, functions normally. However, If I were to test the very same html document on lubuntu, that very same html document displayed in the very ...

My aim is to replace nautilus with nemo from universe in ubuntu devel (currently vivid) using unity. I am close to this goal, after reading about DefaultFileManager from ubuntu help and this or this ...

I installed a program "Gliffy" as a Google Chrome app. It saves it's diagrams as *.gliffy files. I'm wondering if I could set things up so that I can double click on this *.gliffy file and it opens ...

I'm having a little trouble understanding exactly how MIME works on the desktop. The specific issue I'm having is that certain file types (C++ source, PHP source, and a couple others) open with Geany ...

I have kingsoft office installed in Lubuntu 14.04 and am using PCmanFM. When I am browsing files in the file manager all of the Kingsoft office files will show up as chequered grey and white icons. ...

I've just installed Xmind and Projectlibre in Ubuntu 14.04 64bits.
When I click on a .xmind file, it opens Xmind.
When I click on a .pod file, it opens ProjecLibre and that's ok.
But they both have ...

I'm using Ubuntu. I'm trying to use ruby gem 'shared-mime-info' for an application I'm writing.
I understand that magic.mgc is a compiled version of magic file which has magic number definitions for ...

Error message clicking on nnn.png images (and no image display):
No default application found for the MIME type image/x-apple-ios-png.
Open the "File types and programs" page in the Control Center to ...

I always get text/plain or application/octet-stream when running "mimetype" on all file types.
The command "file --mime-type" seems to identify correctly the different file types. For instance, if I ...

So I had to uninstall the ppa version of Xournal and build from source (with a modification). And now .xoj files open automatically with KDE's archive manager Ark, and are identified as being of type ...

I'm using 13.10. I want to remove LibreOffice Writer from my "open with..." menu for html, xml and tex documents, because I almost never use writer (except when someone sends my a word document) and I ...

During the update to Saucy, the AssoGiate module is removed as it has been declared obsolete.
I can find no replacement for the editor of the MIME file types database which is compatible with UBUNTU ...

I'm trying to get xdg-open to open css files with correct editor, but can't get file to report correct mimetype for a file.css file. There is an entry both in /etc/mime.types and a file already exist ...

When dragging a file, all the entries on the launcher that are able to open that file stay lightened while the others fade. As far as I know, this is based on the Mime Types specified on the .desktop ...

im using ubuntu raring 64 bit now, i just downloaded kingsoft office for i686 arhcitecture, unfortunantely it seemed that i downloaded it wrongly (i downloaded the 32 bit rpm version!) and forced to ...

Wine automatically adds certain mimetypes and file associations (e.g. notepad.exe for .ini files). There already is an answer that explains how to remove these associations.
But how can one prevent ...

I manually installed LuxRender 1.2.1 under /usr/local/bin/ and it works fine and dandy. I then created 5 new mime-types for LuxRender *.lxs, *.lxo, *.lxm, *.lxv and *.flm file formats (scene, objects, ...

Hi I am trying to work out why PHP is returning an 'msword' file type when it should be 'excel' so have tested on my Ubuntu box using both the 'file' and 'mimetype' commands. As you can see from the ...

I have a simple html page in which i am running video using html5 tags, when i run that page using firefox it runs the page and video properly. But when i run this page by setting the apache server ...

In ubuntu, i am running simple html page that can run mp4 video, i have configured Apache Server and have run simple test page for hello world, its working fine. In Apache Webserver i have read that ...

A few facts: I use Wine. Wine ships its own version of Notepad. For some files, this copy of Notepad has somehow become associated. There is no possibility of me ever actually wanting to open anything ...

I have a file that is formatted as a .doc, but Nautilus and LibreOffice insists that it is a .txt. Both precise and Ubuntu 12.10 are that way, but Google Docs can convert it (after playing with it).
...

I want to know how I can add action when the user right-clicks on specific MIME-types or folders without the use of nautilus-actions.
I would be happy if this was possible using Nautilus Scripts as ...

I would like to change several default applications for files opened in Dolphin. I know I could do it manually with kcmshell4 filetypes, keditfiletype or however else but is there a way how to change ...